LECTURE NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT. Emad Elbeltagi, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor of Construction Engineering and Management

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1 LECTURE NOTES ON CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT Emad Elbeltagi, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor of Construction Engineering and Management

2 Civil Engneering Department Mansoura Higher Institute for Engineering and Technology Construction Management (CIS 361) Syllabus: This course is intended to provide an introduction to many facets of the construction management. This course intent is to provide a practical demonstration of the basic management techniques commonly used or encountered on a construction project. Course outlines: project need determination and feasibility studies, project cost evaluation and estimating, project schedule development, design/construction, contract development, project engineering/design, engineering procurement, specification development, cost accounting and control, labor availability evaluation, quality assurance and control, project closeout. Objectives: This course focuses on the principles of construction management including construction project planning, scheduling and project control techniques. Cash flow analysis and time-cost trade-off. The course focuses on: Project planning Scheduling techniques Liner projects scheduling Resources management Schedule compression Cash flow analysis Project updating Earned value management Lectures Wednesdays: 9:00 10:30 AM 10:30 AM 12:00 PM Tutorials As per the announced schedule Instructor Prof. Emad Elbeltagi Office: Web page: eelbelta@mc.edu.eg & eelbelta@yahoo.com Teaching assistant Eng. Mohamed Ragab, Eng. Mohamed Elashram

3 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: PROJECT PLANNING 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Project Planning Steps Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) Project Activities Activities Relationships Drawing Project Network 1.3 Estimating Activity Duration and Direct Cost CHAPTER 2: PROJECT SCHEDULING 2.1 The Critical Path Method 2.2 Calculations for the Critical Path Method Activity-On-Arrow Networks Calculations Precedence Diagram Method (PDM) 2.3 Time-Scaled Diagrams 2.4 Schedule Presentation 2.5 Criticisms to Network Techniques 2.6 Solved Examples CHAPTER 3: SCHEDULING OF REPETITIVE PROJECTS 3.1 Linear Projects 3.2 Resource-Driven Scheduling 3.3 Summary Diagrams

4 3.4 Line of Balance (LOB) Basic Representation LOB Calculations CHAPTER 4: RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 4.1 Resource Definition 4.2 Resource Management 4.3 Resource Allocation 4.4 Resource Aggregation (Loading) 4.5 Resource Leveling (Smoothing) 4.6 Scheduling with Limited Resource CHAPTER 5: PROJECT TIME-COST TRADE-OFF 5.1 Time-Cost Trade-Off 5.2 Activity Time-Cost Relationship 5.3 Project Time-Cost Relationship 5.4 Shortening Project Duration CHAPTER 6: PROJECT CASH FLOW 6.1 Contract Cash Flow Construction Project Costs The S-Curve Project Income (Cash-in) Calculating Contract Cash Flow Minimizing Contractor Negative Cash Flow Cost of Borrowing (Return on Investment) 6.2 Project Cash Flow Project Profitability Indicators

5 CHAPTER 7: PROJECT CONTROL 7.1 Problems that may Arise During Construction 7.2 Schedule Updating 7.3 Delays Analysis Types of Delays The As-Built Schedule Analysis of Concurrent Delays 7.4 Earned Value Management

6 Outline and Schedule Week # Date Title 1 28/9/2016 Overview 2 5/10/2016 Planning 3 12/10/2016 Planning, Scheduling 4 19/10/2016 Scheduling 5 26/10/2016 Linear projects scheduling 6 2/10/2016 Resources management 7 9/11/2016 Resources management 8 16/11/2016 Mid-term Exam 9 23/11/2016 Schedule compression 10 30/11/2016 Schedule compression 11 7/12/2016 Cash flow 12 14/12/2016 Cash flow 13 21/12/2016 Project updating 14 28/12/2016 Earned value management REFERENCES Awani, Alfred O. (1983). Project Management Techniques. Petrocelli Books Inc.

7 Clough, Richard H. & Sears, Gelen A. (1979). Construction Project Management. John Wiley & Sons Inc., NY. Cormican, David. (1985). Construction Management: Planning and Finance. Construction Press, London. Eldosouky, Adel I. (1996). Principles of Construction Project Management. Mansoura University Press, Mansoura, Egypt. Gould, Frederick E. (1997). Managing the Construction Process: Estimating, Scheduling, and Project Control. Prentice-Hall Inc., New Gersy. Gould, Frederick E. and Joyce, Nancy, e. (2008). Construction Project Management. 3 rd edition, Prentice-Hall Inc., New Gersy. Harris, Frank & McCaffer, Ronald. (1983). Modern Construction Management. Granada Publishing, Great Britain. Harris, Robert. (1978). Precedence and Arrow Networking Techniques for Construction. John Wiley & Sons Inc., NY. Hegazy, T. (2002). Computer-Based Construction Project Management. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA. Pilcher, Roy. (1992). Principles of Construction Management. Mc-Graw Hill Book company, 3rd ed. نصير ابراهيم عبد الرشيد )2006(. إدارة مشروعات التشييد دار النشر للجامعات مصر..NY الجار هللا محمد ابراهيم نواره جمال محمد )1984( إدارة المشاريع الهندسية John Wiley & Sons